DDOT plans to rehabilitate and replace many DC bridges

At the Ward 2 DDOT project update, much of the bike-relevant news was bridge related.

First, DDOT has completed a design for the rehabilitation of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. This work is currently scheduled to start in May and last two years. While most of the work has to do with repairing cracks on the concrete arches, floor beams, piers and abutments, and repairing some deterioration of the underside of the bridge deck; it does include an upgrade to the barrier between the sidewalk and the road. There's also streetlight repair and improvement of the road surface.

Next, DDOT is working on designing a rehabilitated Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge over Rock Creek. That design will be completed this spring, with work to begin later in the year and complete in 201. It's not clear how this will impact cyclists, but the bridge passes over a bike trail and connects Georgetown to the L Street Cycletrack.

In the spring or summer of 2015, DDOT will complete the design of the replacement 31st Street Bridge over the C&O Canal. This bridge interacts with the C&O Canal path and a project goal is to "Improve pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicular circulation."

Farther out, DDOT is doing an investigation of the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge which will be completed this winter. They'll then do an analysis of alternatives with construction in the future (no date given). As noted before, this project is investigating, among other things, a connection of the downstream sidewalk to Virginia, along with other sidewalk improvements.

There's also a slide about the "Massachusetts Avenue Redesign" (?) that shows bike lanes and sharrows on 12th street both north and south of Mass. Currently they're only on the north side. If they're redesigning Massachusetts Avenue, it would be fantastic to include a protected bikeway.